Bedstead



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XEL E. JAooEsoN, or MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,265, datedSeptember 21, 1897.

' Application filed January 28, 1897- Serlal No. 621,009. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AXEL E. JACOBSON, of Minneapolis, Hennepin county,Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to iron bedsteads; and the object Ihave in View is to. provide a bed which shall be absolutely noushakingand rigid, and a further object is to provide a bed in which the siderails may be turned over, so that the bed may be used with slats or not,as desired.

My invention consists generally in providin g the corner-iron of the bedwith a shoulder or projection having a recess or socket to receive a lugor tongue provided on the end of the bed-rail, said socket beingprovided on its inner surface with a shoulder or projection to engage asimilar shoulder provided on the inner edge of the lug on the bed-rail,all as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the.claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a perspective of the corner-iron of a bed embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, a portion of the shoulder. beingbroken away, showing the interior of the socket. Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of a portion of the bed-rail, looking at one side thereof.Fig. 4 is a similar view looking at the opposite side .of the rail.

In the drawings, 2 represents the corner-- iron, having thelaterally-projecting parts 3 and 4 preferably cast with it and to whichthe side and end rails of the bed are connected. The part 3 consists,preferably, of a solid shoulder or block provided at its outer end, atthe center, with a vertical socket 5, a narrow vertical slot 6, providedin the end of the part 3, leading to the same. The socket 5 is providedon its inner surface, near the inner edge of the vertical slot 6', witha shoulder 7, having an inclined face and extending from a point nearthe middle of the socket to the lower end thereof, as shown in Fig. 2.

Each end of the bed-rail 8 is provided with a tongue or lug 9, providedat its inner end on each side with a vertical recess 10, into which thatpart of the shoulder 3 forming the edges of the slot 6 fits when the bedis put toshoulders 7, heretofore described.

gether. The outer end of the tongue or lug 9 is enlarged to fill thesocket 5 when the parts are placed together, and lugs 11 are provided onsaid enlarged end to engage the The edges of the lugs 11 are inclined,so that when they come in contact with the shoulders 7, also inclined,the tongue is firmly wedged into the socket 5 andall shaking andrattling of the bed avoided. The points of contact on the tongue and inthe socket 5 are so arranged that the parts will be securely wedgedtogether just at the time when the upper surfaceof the rail 8 is flushwith the uppersurface of the part 3, as shown in Fig. 1. The side railsof the bed are preferably of an gleiron, and, when desired, I may turneach rail I over, so that one flange will be at the lower edge'of therail in position to receive the ends of the slats and support the samewhen the bed is in use. The lugs 11 being inclined on both sides it isobvious that the tongue 9 may be wedged into the socket 5, whicheveredge of the bed-rail is uppermost, so that the slats may be placed inthe bed with their ends resting on the flange at the lower side of thebedrail, or, if desired, the spring may be placed upon the upper surfaceof the bed-rail, and

when the bed is made in this way the rails would be connected to thecorner-iron, as shown in Fig. 1.

Instead of placing the lug on the tongue and the shoulder on the innersurface of the socket I may reverse the construction with equally goodresults, it being necessary to use Patent- 1. In a bedstead, thecombination with the corner-iron, provided with a socket, of the siderails having a tongue to enter said socket, said tongue being providedwith a lug having an inclined surface in position to engage a shoulderalso having an inclined surface provided on the inner surface of saidsocket, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the corner-iron having a laterally-projectingshoulder provided with a vertical socket, of a side rail having a tongueto fit into said socket, the latter being provided with a shoulder onits inner surface, and said tongue being provided shoulder 7, therecesses 10 provided in said tongue, and the lugs 11 to engage saidshoulders, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set I 5 my hand this 16th day ofJanuary, A. D.

. AXEL E. JACOBSON.

In presence of RICHARD PAUL, M. E. GooLEY.

